Prostate Cancer

BJUI Mini Reviews - Prostate angiosarcoma: Is there any association with previous radiation therapy?

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - For the current review a literature search was carried out using Pubmed, EmBase, and Cochrane databases.

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Daily life and life quality 3 years following prostate cancer treatment - Abstract

BACKGROUND: Knowledge of experiences from prostate cancer is sparse in a longitudinal perspective.

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Receipt of National Comprehensive Cancer Network guideline-concordant prostate cancer care among African American and Caucasian American men in North Carolina - Abstract

BACKGROUND: African Americans have a higher incidence of prostate cancer and experience poorer outcomes compared with Caucasian Americans.

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Perceptions of prostate cancer fatalism and screening behavior between United States-born and Caribbean-born Black males - Abstract

Cancer fatalism is believed to be a major barrier for cancer screening in Black males.

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Role of choline PET/CT in guiding target volume delineation for irradiation of prostate cancer - Abstract

Choline PET/CT has shown limitations for the detection of primary prostate cancer and nodal metastatic disease, mainly due to limited sensitivity and specificity.

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A randomised, wait-list controlled trial: Evaluation of a cognitive-behavioural group intervention on psycho-sexual adjustment for men with localised prostate cancer - Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) group intervention to facilitate improved psycho-sexual adjustment to treatment side effects in prostate cancer survivors post-radical prostatectomy.

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Importance and determinants of Gleason score undergrading on biopsy sample of prostate cancer in a population-based study - Abstract

BACKGROUND: In this population-based study, we investigated the degree of concordance between Gleason scores obtained from prostate biopsies and those obtained from prostatectomy specimens, as well as the determinants of biopsy understaging.

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High-resolution ERG-expression profiling on GeneChip exon 1.0 ST arrays in primary and castration-resistant prostate cancer - Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To assess whether oestrogen-regulated gene (ERG) expression analysis using GeneChip arrays can predict transmembrane protease, serine 2 (TMPRSS2)-ERG fusion.

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Cost-effectiveness analysis comparing degarelix with leuprolide in hormonal therapy for patients with locally advanced prostate cancer - Abstract

Degarelix, approved in the USA in 2008, is a gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist, representing one of the latest additions to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).

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Salvage intensity modulated radiotherapy using endorectal balloon after radical prostatectomy: Clinical outcomes - Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate biochemical non-evidence of disease and adverse events of salvage intensity-modulated radiotherapy using an endorectal balloon for prostate cancer patients after radical prostatectomy.

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